Paper holder and cutter



(No Model.)

T. o. EBERHARDT.

PAPER HOLDER AND GUTTER.

HUI@Hl Patented Nov. 18, 1888.

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UNITED STATES 'rHEoPHrLUS CHARLES EBEEEARDT, or cUEno, AssreNoE fro ELSAS, or DALLAS, TEXAS.

PATENT @Erica H ERM AN PAPER HOLDER ND CUTTER.

SPECIPICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,668, dated November 13, 1888.

Application filed Augustl, 188B. Seria-l No. 282,618. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUS CHARLEs EBERHARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the town of Cuero, in the county of De Witt and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Paper Holder and Cutter, of which the following is a specification.V

My invention relates to that class of paper holders and cutters in which the paper is drawn through a holder and severed at any desiredpoint. Itsobjectsaretosecnrea cheap, simple, durable, efficient, and easily-manipulated apparatus capable, if required, of holding several sheets of the same or different widths, which can be fed side by side and cut tothe requisite length, leaving a projecting edge behind the cutter to afford ready means of drawing out the succeeding sheet.

The accompanying drawings show so much of my improved machine as is necessary to illustrate the invention claimed.

Figure l represents a plan or top View, and Fig. 2 an end view, thereof. i

Bases or supports A A' are shown as provided, preferably, With suitable holes, a, to permit of their being secured to a counter, table, or other support in usual well-known ways. The main or central holding-bar consists, preferably, of a flat blade, B, having its ends b turned up at right angles thereto. This blade is preferably secured to the bases in such manner that they project slightlysay half an inch--beyond its ends, for a purpose 35 hereinafter described.

` bar, in the same horizontal plane. These bars are held down upon, but permitted to slide over, the bases A A', bymeans of fiat-headed pins E passing through right-angled slots d in the bars. That part of the slots nearest the center is transverse to the edge of the bar, While the other portion is parallel therewith.

By this means the outside bars can be moved away from the center one and held in that position by sliding them endwise, so that the pins take into the longitudinal parts of the 55 slots.

Knobs B P on the outside bars afford means for moving them, as well as serving as points of attachment for spiral springs G G', which extend from one to the other, preferably outside the upright parts I) of the central bar. These springs tend to draw the outside bars together to clamp the paper between them and the central bar when free to move and thus hold the paper with a firm but elastic pressure.

The central bar, preferably, is covered with leather, cloth, felt, or other pliable material to secure a soft yielding surface, over which the paper may be drawn with sufficient friction Without being torn.

In operation an outside bar-one or bothis drawn away from the central bar and the paper passed between them and clamped, as above described. Separate strips may be fed in from opposite sides of the bar or from the same side, as desired. The strip is drawn out the desired length and torn off by a quick jerk against the edge of the cutter, as usual, leaving always a projecting end convenient for grasping the next time.

The paper is preferably drawn from a roll or rolls placed in a bracket or box beneath the table or mounted on aroller or spindle 1ocated in any convenient place.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my improved combined paper holder and cutter, what I claim therein as new and` of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, ofthe base-pieces, the central holding-bar secured thereto, its upright end pieces, and the cutter secured thereto.

2. The combination, substantially as heren inbefore set forth, of the base-pieces, the central holding-bar, the outside holding-bars, their slots and guide-pins, and the spiral springs connecting them to hold them against the central bar, as described.

The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the central holdingbar, contiguous holding-bars arranged on 0ppm site sides thereof, parallel therewith, and in therewith, and springs holding the bars to the same horizontal plane, springs clamping gether with ayielding or elastic connection. lo the holdingbars against the bar, and a cutter In testimony whereof I have hereunto subor knife bar parallel With the holding-bars, scribed my name.

5 With its edge presented thereto. THEOPIIILUS CHARLES EBERHARDT.

4. The combination, substantially as here VitneSSes: inbefore set forth, of the central holding-bar, ANTON KELLER, its pliable covering, a holding-bar parallel lV. J. BAKER. 

